I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Quotations
Music
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
